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Monday, April 8, 2013

Boeing Boings

Trey Smith

It is getting harder and harder to figure out what the Democratic and Republican Parties stand for these days. In the old days, the GOP was the party of business and the Democrats stood up for the rest of us. But it is difficult to say that now when a Democratic president seems intent on placing Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block, attacks government whistleblowers relentlessly, maintains a "kill list" of foreigners AND Americans, and appears set to approve the greatest environmental boondoggle yet (Keystone Pipeline).

After the company approached several lawmakers, Frank Chopp, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives in Washington state,canceled a scheduled March 13 vote on the bill. Instead Jeff Morris, another Democrat who chairs the House Technology and Economic Development Committee, was asked to lead a “more comprehensive study of surveillance issues.”

Yes, it was the Democrats who killed the bill! They sided with Boeing in putting profits before people.